BLACK THOUGHTS: A Political Ideological Perspective for
Afro LatinosPart IV: Voice of the Voiceless

By Kevin Alberto Sabio

I had recently gone out to a Latino heritage festival out here in my new home state of Virginia. Being that this is
Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month, I had decided to come out and represent my Honduran heritage at this festival; one of the
few opportunities that I have to not be the quintessential ‘angry black male’, and get to relax and let my hair
down, so to speak. I wore my paraphernalia (hat and wristbands) promoting my Honduran heritage, even buying a jersey
with the Honduran flag on it at the festival when I finally arrived. The festival itself was quite nice; not really
being on the scale that I’m used to being from New York, but it was still entertaining and enjoyable. The only
downer was getting asked the same stupid question from those who dared to ask…

Are you really from Honduras?

No…I’m wearing all of this blue-and-white because it brings out the color of my eyes…

The book focuses
attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America
and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that
Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social
divide between Latin@s and African Americans. At the same time, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and
ethnocentrism among African Americans. Offering insight into Afro-Latin@ life and new ways to understand culture, ethnicity,
nation, identity, and antiracist politics, The Afro-Latin@ Reader presents a kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s
in the United States. It addresses history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections,
including scholarly essays, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, short stories, and interviews.

The proof of any group's importance
to history is in the detail, a fact made plain by this informative book's day-by-day documentation of the impact of African
Americans on life in the United States. One of the easiest ways to grasp any aspect of history is to look at it as a
continuum. African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events provides just such an opportunity.

THE VIEW FROM CHOCÓ:
THE AFRO-COLOMBIAN PAST, THEIR LIVES IN THE PRESENT, AND THEIR HOPES FOR THE FUTURE

by Karen Juanita
Carrillo

The
View from Chocó: The Afro-Colombian past, their lives in the present, and their hopes for the future is an introduction
to the lives of Blacks in Colombia. Afro-Colombians live in a resource-rich yet remote region of Colombia. They only recently
won recognition as one of that nation's distinct ethnic groups. But Colombia's on-going civil war has led many Afro-Colombians
to reach even farther than their nation's borders for recognition: many have made their way to the United States as refugees
and as political activists working for peace in their homeland. The View from Chocó introduces the lives and
struggles of a too-long neglected community of Colombian Blacks.